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CHARGED: The defendant, whom federal prosecutors allege transported
a Park Slope teen across state lines as part of a child-porn scheme.
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BY COLIN MIXSON
A teenage girl reported missing
from her Park Slope home
in September left the borough
in the company of an out-ofstate
man who met her online,
and convinced the 15-year-old
to move to his Texas motorhome
as part of a sickening
child-pornography scheme, according
to a source familiar
with the incident.
The U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of New York
Richard Donoghue on Dec.
6 unsealed a federal criminal
complaint charging the
48-year-old defendant with
transporting a minor across
state lines to engage in illegal
sexual activity, which carries
a maximum sentence of life
in prison, according to John
Marzulli, a spokesman for
Donoghue.
The man began his online
relationship with the teen in
August, repeatedly discussing
his desire to have sex with her,
and telling her to send him naked
pictures of herself, according
to Marzulli.
She ultimately agreed to
join him in Texas, and he purchased
an interstate bus ticket
for the girl, only to discover
she was too young to travel
without an adult, the spokesman
said.
The defendant then rented
a car and, after telling the
victim to “make sure you
are packed and ready to go,”
picked her up near her Brooklyn
home before driving her
back to Texas, Marzulli said.
Investigators traced the
girl to the man’s home in a
trailer park using an account
she created for an adult website,
and a Sept. 14 e-mail she
sent to her mother saying she
wanted to go home, according
to complaint documents.
Offi cers with Texas’s Limestone
County Sheriff’s Department
found the defendant
while canvassing the trailer
park on Sept. 15, and he admitted
the girl was in his trailer,
the documents show.
Investigators later obtained
a search warrant authorizing
the Federal Bureau
of Investigation to access the
defendant’s electronic devices,
where they found sexually explicit
images of the teen, according
to the documents.
The defendant, whom
Texas authorities arrested in
September, is in the process of
being extradited to Brooklyn
for prosecution, according to
Marzulli.
Slope girl target
of porn scheme
US Attorney: Man lured local teen to Texas
trailer park to engage in illicit sexual acts